Re: Re : Win32 binaries test / pg_dump problem

Would someone verify that having psql open the file in binary mode fixes
the problem?

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Cyril VELTER said:
> >>
> >>
> >>>From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Cyril VELTER wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>    if you psql -f test.sql basetest from the windows shell to a
> >>>>>    windows
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>or
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>linux database, you'll get a missing data error :
> >>>>>
> >>>>>psql:test.sql:9: ERROR:  missing data for column "b"
> >>>>>CONTEXT:  COPY test, line 1: "a"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    if you psql -f test.sql basetest from a linux shell to a windows
> >>>>>    or
> >>>>>linux database, you won't get an error
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>Sounds like we should have psql open the file in binary mode on
> >>>>Windows. Would that cause problems? I doubt it, but I wonder.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>   you might be right, I just found some information on msdn that fseek
> >>>   for
> >>>example is influenced by ctrl-z when the file is opened in text mode.
> >>>
> >>>   I'm not sure that this is the cause of the second problem (backend
> >>>   crash
> >>>on copy to) though.
> >>>
> >>>   do you known where this modification needs to be done ?
> >>>
> >>>   cyril
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>probably in src/bin/psql/command.c::process_file()
> >>
> >>instead of mode "r" we should probably use the predefined constant
> >>PG_BINARY_R
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Uh, but it isn't a binary file, it is SQL commands.
> >
> >
> >
>
> If it can have an embedded ^Z it is not a legal Windows text file.
>
> Adding the binary flag will have exactly 2 effects:
> 1. It will inhibit the behaviour of the driver in translating CRLF to
> plain LF
> 2. It will not see ^Z as EOF.
>
> We don't care about the first - we handle CRLF just fine. But we do care
> about the second, and we don't want the library to interpret ^Z as EOF.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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